had a touch by being able to hack my samsung tv, now i just playmkv from my wxl via a samba share, works a treat and only took 2 minutes to sort out the tv, just followed the instructions on wikipedia fast forward everything works ok, no dlna required

However, I realize that when I try to create a new folder (read-and-write-able) for example "users" from the root of /mnt/array1 and try to make it accessible to Windows users via samba installed by default in LS-WVL, the Windows clients are only able to browse/read the folder and execute any file from it but they cannot write to it. Because of the issue, the Windows user will get "Access is denied" for error message "Unable to create new folder".

I think next time, the Linkstation firmware designer needs to make sure the smb.conf created at /etc/samba by LinkStation program /usr/local/sbin/nas_configgen should include samba parameter write list = <list of samba users and groups> when writeable = yes via Linkstation web GUI.

In addition, the newly created folder must be correctly assigned the correct Linux group permission when it is configured via Linkstation web GUI. The best is to use the default hdusers group since Linkstation will update the users under this group as well. The Linux user permission shall be default to root user with chmod -R 777.

This configuraton must be persistent whenever Linkstation is rebooted.

Other related issue is that the users are also unable to do create a sub-folder under the newly created folder via Linkstation FTP service. It is probably due to incorrect user write permission setting for the FTP service by Linkstation.

Currently, it is set as followed at /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf by LinkStation program /usr/local/sbin/nas_configgen with duplicated names (bug?) when it should allowUser under hdusers and AllowGrouphdusers group as well...

There has been a delay in releasing FW 1.6x for the linkstations in the Subject line. Our engineers are stating FW 1.6x will be released in mid-July. The engineers and quality depts state that the update will include the Twonky update.

We apologize for the delay; some difficulties were found in the FW code, and these needed to be resolved before releasing this update to our customers.

There has been a delay in releasing FW 1.6x for the linkstations in the Subject line. Our engineers are stating FW 1.6x will be released in mid-July. The engineers and quality depts state that the update will include the Twonky update.

We apologize for the delay; some difficulties were found in the FW code, and these needed to be resolved before releasing this update to our customers.

Next thing is to let users have serial access to U-boot.

It will make these devices far more interesting to be able to make own alterations ...